Across
- 2. beetle-like insect; scatters when the light turns on
- 4. large crustacean with claws and five pairs of legs
- 5. neither a bee nor an ant; has lodged stinger
- 7. green insect with triangular head; looks as if it is praying
- 8. soft-bodied creature with eight tentacles
- 13. creature similar to centipede but with more legs
- 16. venemous arachnid with hind stinger and pincers
- 17. lives in colonies; can carry twenty times its own weight
- 18. carnivorous insect with about 100 legs; often in the home
- 19. creature with five arms that resides on the ocean floor
- 21. parasitic worm that sucks the blood of its prey
- 22. insect related to grasshoppers that chirp at night
- 24. stick-like flying insect with compound eyes and two pairs of wings
Down
- 1. flying insect that sucks blood and can carry malaria
- 3. small, usually green jumping insect with long hind legs
- 6. creature containing pores used to make cleaning tool
- 9. crustacean with a thick exoskeleton and pincers
- 10. small crustacean; turns pink when cooked
- 11. swimming creature with dome-shaped tops and tentacles that often sting
- 12. creature with a hard back, short antennae and pincer-like mouth parts
- 14. shelled gastropod that leaves slime in its path
- 15. insect with large wings; went through metamorphosis
- 19. long mollusk often confused with an octopus
- 20. eight-legged arachnid with spinnerets
- 23. soil-residing bug with no limbs and five hearts